Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	believe_v	faith_n	justify_v	5,380	5	8.8463	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19906	Yehovah summa totalis or, All in all, and, the same for euer: or, an addition to Mirum in modum. / By the first author, Iohn Dauies.	Davies, John, 1565?-1618.; Davies, John, 1565?-1618. Mirum in modum.	1607 (1607)	STC 6337; ESTC S109347	39,757	86

Stearne be torne and Keele be split VVith Thornes he Hedgeth in his Minions VVay That if they tread awry they prick their feet So thus Hedg'd in they cannot go astray Or if they do their feet with Thornes do meet That make thē strait go right through sharp regreet But with the Reprobate it is not so Their waies are wide faire and smoth and sweet So that in all lose liberty they go Through VVorlds of Pleasure to a World of VVo. Thus is this Povv'r diuine to Grace connext For those that are to Glory preordain'd Yet by that Povv'r and Grace they stil are vext for want of Pow'r and Grace to haue refrain'd Some Synne which they perhaps haue intertain'd But touching the remorceles Reprobate This Povv'r to Iustice euermore is chain'd yea often Gifts of Grace through secret hate Do fat them vp for death in frolicke state Now on this Povv'r of his Almightines Hangs that greate Question in Religion For which so many with rare hardines Their Liuelihoods and Liues haue erst forgon But though Mens Faiths be diuers Truth 's but One. To vrge his Pow'r our Faith to strengthen still In that wherein his will is simply show'n We iustly may else do we passing ill To presse his Pow'r against his holy Will Hence may we take incoragement to giue with open hand to those that are in neede For supernaturally he can releeue Those that fast oft the hungry Soule to feed Sith they are rarely constant in their Creed But now alas this free Beneuolence Is shunned as a superstitious deede To offer as some weene the Poore our Pence We make an Idoll of their Indigence yet nought's more sure then that that Members dead That hath no feeling of his Fellowes paine So if this fellow-feeling once be fled From those that Faith professe their Faith is vaine And they in Death insencibly remain A faithfull Heart doth make an open Hand And in all harts an open Hand doth raigne For they by Reasons rule should most command That like God most releeue on Sea and Land Riches like Thornes laid on the open Hand Do it no hurt but gript hard wouud it deepe So while a Man his Riches can command He may command the World and safely sleepe For all men bound to him to him will stand And from all Wants and Woes him safely keepe But they whose hands are clos'd by Auarice Ly open to all Hate and Preiudice From this almighty Povv'r in deep'st distresse We fetch our Anchor Hope our selues to stay Where safe we lie though plung'd in wretchednes For well we wot we neuer can decay While neuer-falling Povv'r our Sterne doth sway And sith it 's mighty most in Clemency If wilfully we do not fall away We are secur'st in greatest iobardy Sith on that Povv'r alone we then rely All that GOD promiseth he hath a Will A willing will to make good euery way And what his Wil is willing to fulfill His Povv'r performes and so his Will doth sway Almighty Povv'r which freely doth obay Then none can feare his Promises can faile That his Omnipotency well doth waigh Sith as he wils that Povv'r doth still preuaile Then Crosse we both when we in Crosses quaile It that of Nothing onely with a Word Made this huge twy-form'd Fabrick which we see Can all assure that is by It assu'rd For what It wils it can what ere it be Who doubts hereof denies the Diety Then as we would not Athiests be in fact We must like God to all his Likes be free For though our Sanctity doth seeme exact If nought we giue nought is our holiest Act. For to beleeue alone God died for Man And not to liue as we in God should dy Our Faith is thus but an Historian Liuing to Truth and dead in Verity For Faith liues not if dead in Charity VVho speake like God and yet like Deuils do Speake Truth to their Damnation for his Eye That sees their VVords and Deeds are euer two Doth doom them by their words and damne them too Whose Povv'r doth muzzle Lions Deepes deuide Make forceles fire from scath to saue his Frends And none that euer on the same relide Had worse then heav'nly if vntimely ends For it in death from Death his Saints defends It from the dust of the obscurest Graue Doth raise to Glory What on It depends And from the deepnesse of the swelling Waue Doth lift to Heau'n all those It wils to saue In Summe sith nothing is impossible That good is to his all-performing Povv'r We should with Hope and Frailties Spectacle Which that Sea-damming Monster did deuou'r Depend thereon and so in Death be sure But now the greatest Taper in the Sky Doth like a Candle in the Socket dure Which seemes as it were at the point to die Then die a while dul'd Muse for Company NOw in the the resurrection of his Light That late lay buried in the Ocean Lake Arise dead Muse resume thy wonted Spright And once againe with Him thy Iourny take Through Heau'n to find him out that All did make yet knowes he more then he did ere create For all created Was when as he spake with Time whose Tearme had no eternall state But he knowes more then Time can circulate He knowes those Things that are not nor shal be And cals That which Is not as though it Were For in him Selfe he more then All doth see And thogh they be not there he knows them there That is he knowes them though they ne're apeare For sith his Knowledge and himselfe are One He knowes well what he can though will do nere So That may in his knowledg Bee alone That neuer shal Bee by Creation This knowes he simply by his Intellect As That which here shal be but in his might But That which he doth purpose to effect Is euermore existing in his sight For all is present to his VVisedoms Sp'rite And though of that That which Is not nor shal Be Can be no Notion so no knowledge right yet Creatures onely know in that degree But God knowes Notionlesse Essentially Those Things haue euer an vn being Beeing which in his Vnderstanding onely Bee And neuer obiect made to his All seeing But Them he intellectually doth see As though they were yet are but virtually As Pictures are in Painters Fantasies Although they neuer make them actually Só without Notion sith all in Him lies These are in Him as Thinges he could deuise So then we must obserue a difference Betweene the knowledge of what once shall Be And that which shall not for as t' wer by sence God sees the first the last he doth not see But as they are in Possibility Yet some may vrge what truth can be of Those That ner'e shall be Yes They with truth agree That truely are in Gods pow'r to disclose So in that Pow'r with truth

Accident But that 's an Essence which is really That which it is in its kind remanent As by our humane nature's euident In Soule and Body Man is said to Bee But in his nature is his Essence pent But yet this Compound neuer can agree Though nere so subtle with Simplicity And though that This and That do seeme to show A mixture in the Things wherein they are Yet in this simple Essence t is not so Though This and That same person stil be there For al three persons but one Substance share If so then though the Persons diuers be Their Essence is as pure as it is rare As in the Sunne a Beame wee likewise see Yet both make but one light essentially Yet Sunne and Beame are diuerse sith they do In their subsisting differ really For both subsist then both must needs be two Yet differ nothing but respectiuely As do the Persons of the Trinity Then by subsisting in a diuerse kind The Persons differ in the Diety Which three In-beeings in one single Mind One simple Substance doth together bind Now sets the Sunne that lights our pen to write Then with him Muse set downe thy weary Pen And in the Sunne that lights thee to indite More Wonders marke till th' other rise agen And then with care divulge the same to Men. These Steepes haue made thy trauell hard to day That thou mayst hold out thy flight fauour then For nought they do that more do then they may Then Wit must rest when Wisedome bids it stay NOw Heaue'ns bright Eye awake by Vespers sheene Peepes through the purple windowes of the East While Night doth sinke beneath the Earth vnseene Fearing with lightnes to be sore opprest Then vp my wakefull Muse to worke for Rest. Thou shalt not soundly sleepe till thou hast view'd Thy iournies end wherein who ends are blest Then let thy course be zealously pursu'd To find the rest of true Beatitude Which is Eternall and alone is so Without Beginning and can haue none End Which hath nor First nor Last for that doth grow From First to Last so rise and then descend But this doth no such Motion comprehend For that 's Eternall that not onely Is But still is such and doth not paire or mend Then must he needs be First and Last by this Because Eternall is that state of his Our Mynd alone confusedly conceiues Th' unbounded compasse of ETERNITY It 's past conceit sith Notion none it giues Being as free from mutability As from beginning end or quantity It euer Was that was e're Time had roome To stirre it selfe by Heau'ns propulsity To which there is nought past nor ought to come But all is present in her boundlesse Wombe Our Soules and Angels are eternall too But their eternity with Time was made As were the Places where reside they do Which both Beginning and Succession had So seeme to vanish though they cannot fade But these created were Eternities Which Time from time to time stil forwards ladd And though Eternall yet Were otherwise But GODS Was euer Is and neuer dies He is the Author of Eternity Then was before it else it could not be He was before that made Eternally So is eternall in the highest degree Yet not the Author of his owne is he His owne Eternity and He are one Sith that 's himselfe that is his Property So could not be his owne creation And so vnmade eternal is alone Angels and Soules though they eternall be Yet either may by nature haue an end That of an Act consist and Potency Which Compound doth to disolution tend Did it not on Gods simple POVVRE depend The Compound is the Cause that so it may For nought is rent without a Cause it rend But there can be no Cause of his decay Who is the chiefest Cause and his owne Stay And by that Stay vn constant Man he staies From a relapse to nothing which he was Yet falling finally he still decaies But nere determines for he still doth passe From ought to nought yet nought is ne'rethelasse For as was said Man is eternall made Though heere he flourisheth and fades like Grasse Yet shall he rise againe and neuer fade To Ioy or Wo as he is Good or Bad. What! shall he liue in wo Eternally If heere he liue and die in gracelesse state So for a short bad life for euer die Or liue in death life still t'excruciate This seemes all Mercy quite to ruinate For all neede Grace sith seuen times sins the best Ere once the Sunne his Round perambulate But seuenty seauen times do the worst at least Then if Grace faile none die to liue in rest If for an hundred yeares offending here For that 's the longest date of our liues lease Millions of Ages we were plagued there with paines past paine yet that in time should cease And we for That in mercy haue release So Iustice might with Mercy sympathize But for a short time of our crimes increase Euer to liue in death that neuer dyes Ah! this makes Iustice seeme to tyrranize But stay fraile flesh and bloud here Truthes reply Thou speak'st thus much as prompted by the Fiend But Truth this Iustice well may iustifie For had'st thou liu'd stil stil thou would'st haue syn'd And to thy passions euermore beene pynn'd Then sith thou sinn'st in thine eternity It 's iust thou should'st in Gods in Hell be Inn'd For he the Will for Deede takes commonly As well when it wills well as wickedly And synne's gain'st Goodnesse most-most infinite Are made most infinite in ill thereby Then no proportion hold paines definite To scourge the ill that hath infinity Which must be punish't in eternity Then O! what life ought mortall Men to lead That leads to endlesse blisse or misery Then liue w'in Hell for Heau'n as did our Head Not liue in Heau'n for Hell when we be dead O how it ought to make flesh freeze with feare Or flame in all deuotion of the Sp'rite Sith the Word EVER euer doth appeare So bottomlesse in length so infinite Euer in vtter darkenesse neuer light Ah! this is it that 's able to dissolue Both Soule and Body with eternall fright And yet to sinne some euer do resolue And EVER neuer in their thoughts reuolue Euer to dye and neuer to be dead Euer to Bee and neuer be at rest Euer in fire yet neuer minished Which EVER Patience neuer can digest Sith it 's most bad when it is at the best If euer we did thinke aright of this This Fire would neuer cease to moue at least And if we be not mou'd with endlesse Blisse Such paines will moue aright or most amisse Then fleshly wisedome no let can be more To let this motion stay a Spirit vnstaid For that Egeriaes doctrine deemes this lore And thinkes all holy fraud which Truth hath said That Lawes may so the better be obaid This wisedomes Eyes are dull yet sharply see To go past